Rushes….. what to do?

Henery

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South shropshire
Rushes getting worse , I know drainage is the real answer but not possible at the moment.
Weed wiper ? Spot spray? What works best and when ?

thanks 🙏
 

Treecreeper

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Livestock Farmer
If conditions allow run the Cambridge roller over them a time or two, it markedly reduces the vitality, I have done this for a couple of years now showing a big difference.
 
Top off a low as you dare. Leave well alone until June when you have a nice crop of green and lush growth at least 12 inches high. Then spray with MCPA + 2,4D. At or near maximum rate. Good steady spraying with plenty of water, can use an adjuvant as well if you need. Within weeks they will stop growing, go yellow and die. Any patches that don't succumb knapsack with thrust next year.

Do not try to spray existing growth that is stood there right now.
 

Universe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Burn them 🤐
Doesn't seem to work, as it doesn't with Japanese knotweed 🙄 Got that t' shirt too...
And drainage of course, but u still have to remove what u have got anyhow. At least thrashing them down you are not allowing them to flower/spread further 🤔
 

Tsa115

Member
Livestock Farmer
Mcpa or similiar end of may, do not top or nothing, leave them over the winter, by next spring they mostly will be rotted down, do again if they are popping back up, cleared a lot of land last few years like this. Take time to work to the roots, been over some rushes that was thick 4 year old, most of that has gone in one hit now. To rough for a topper. A lot wont agree with our method though
 

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